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For the 16th year, 88.3 WCQR partnered with Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee to provide Thanksgiving meals to local families in a campaign called Project Thanksgiving. The Project Thanksgiving goal for 2024 was to feed 7,000 families. On November 7th, 2024, WCQR dedicated an entire day of broadcasting to creating awareness about food insecurities in the area and encouraging listeners to sponsor a Thanksgiving meal at the cost of just $25. Later in November, Project Thanksgiving exceeded its goal!
Similar to a normal fundraiser, we have several volunteers and donors join us in the phone room for the day. Pictured to the right are Amy Elkins (left) and Mike Loudermilk (right), who are both long-time volunteers and donors. We appreciate them for their dedication to our mission and minsitry!
Want to watch Amanda pack a Project Thanksgiving Box? Click Here for
Doug from WJHL stopped by to film in the studio.
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Coffee Stops! Christian and Amanda, Michael, and Casey went to The Coffee Company in Elizabethton for a Coffee Stop on Friday November 1st. Then on Friday, November 15th, the entire team engaged with listeners at The Fox’s Den Boardgame Cafe Fun was had, coffee was consumed, and babies were held! We love coffee stops because they allow us to casually converse with our WCQR family.
These were some comments on one of our Facebook posts about the Coffee Stops.
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The most exciting thing that happened on our social media was because of an exciting thing in our WCQR family: Adam and his wife Katie welcomed sweet baby Nora into the world on Saturday, November 16th!
Two of the 250+ comments from the social media post about baby Nora:
We invited our social media followers to wish Amanda a Happy Birthday on November 27th. Here are several of the nearly 150 comments.
Here is a cool God Moment story from Adam:
The nurse midwife that is working today saw Katie at her last appointment this past Friday. Katie really liked her and when she came in today, I could see why. Then, she told how she was driving in today and heard Rhonda talking about Nora coming and asking people to pray. Well, she prayed for us not knowing she would be meeting Nora and that she already met Katie. It was really sweet. She said her mom listens all the time and encouraged her to take the 30-day challenge back in Jan and she hasn’t changed the station since.
A message from a follower on Facebook:
And another follower sent us a couple dad jokes for Christian. Here’s one:
We’ve been blessed with the ability to create and deliver experiences on our app as well. We recently began to receive and respond to messages that listeners send on our app. It could be anything from a song request, to appreciation for what one of the on-air hosts said, prayer requests, or just a “thank you.”
Here are a few of the encouraging messages we received in November from our listeners.
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On Wednesday, Nov 6, a small homeschool group came for a Radio Station field trip. The kids got to see Rhonda and Adam in action, ask questions about how the station works, hear some of their favorite songs, and Christian and Amanda even put a couple kids on air with their best Dad Joke!
Another home school group came for a visit on Wednesday, November 20th. Abigail, Karen, Caleb, and Eli. Abigail got to record with Rhonda during the Morning Show!
Josh and Casey set up a booth at a local concert called Mountain Aid . It was a benefit concert for Samaritan’s Purse and was filled with a great lineup including Jason Crabb, Jason Lovins Band, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, Sean of the South, Point of Grace, and Steven Curtis Chapman. It was great to see so many artists offer their music in support of such a good cause in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Many of our listeners were there in support.
Our dear friend and donor Marc St. Louis stopped by to visit a week or so after he was in a car accident. He wanted to wish us a Happy Thanksgiving and to ask for prayer for healing.
Silas and his family stopped by the station one day after Project Thanksgiving. Silas wanted to give his money to buy Thanksgiving meals for local families. He even wrote them a sweet note.
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